Azure Market Organics Unbleached Bread Flour, Ultra-Unifine, Organic

If you want to bake a fantastic loaf of rustic, artisan bread, this is the flour for you!

 

Azure Market Organics Unbleached Bread Flour Ultra-Unifine is made from heritage varieties of hard red wheat from our close friends at Jenkins Creek Ranch in Idaho. This heritage wheat has the highest concentration of protein of any flour you can find in the US. At <16 percent, it’s got plenty of gluten to make a light, deliciously crusty loaf every time. It is milled using our Unifine process, and then sifted to remove some of the bran, resulting in a light, white flour. This results in a finished product that has softer flavor notes, rises better and adds a little lightness to your artisan breads. Many commercial bakers who have tried it say Azure’s unbleached flour softens the crust a bit and makes the bread easier to digest. They also blend it with other types of flour to get a truly proprietary, artisan loaf.  

 

The Unifine milling process results in a nutritionally superior flour with a texture that makes it a dream for baking. If all you’ve ever baked with is store-bought, all-purpose flour, you’ll be amazed by the difference in flavor and consistency of our Unifine flours. Azure has one of only three mills in the country that utilize the Unifine milling method. 

 

Curious how it works? 

Azure’s Unifine mill processes the entire bran, germ, and endosperm of the grain into a nutritious, whole-grain flour in one step. Instead of crushing or cutting the grain, the Unifine process uses a high-speed rotor with a single-pass impact system to instantly pulverize the kernels of grains, never subjecting them to the high temperatures common in regular grain milling. Using the entire grain without any heat means the valuable nutrients of ancient grains are retained, so the whole grain flours have longer shelf-life, better flavor, and more nutrition. In fact, Unifine flours are packed with many times the nutritional value than commercial roller-milled flours and stone ground flours — they contain almost four times as much dietary fiber, more than twice as much potassium, and three times as much magnesium. 

 

All commercial milling processes, other than Unifine, utilize some form of grinding or rolling that produces heat that degrades or destroys the oils in the grain. It’s the oils that contain all the vitamins and nutrients. Steel roller mills can make whole-wheat flour, but only by separating the grain’s constituent parts, adding water, and then forcing them back together. It’s an extremely inefficient process, and the stamping, crushing, squeezing, hydrating, and rolling compromises the nutrition and the flavor of the flour. That’s where “enriched” flour comes from; the big manufacturers have to add vitamins and minerals back in.

With the Unifine Milling process, the result is a texture lighter than traditional wheat flour, but with all the benefits of the whole grain and its natural oils. Unifine flours are ideal for fine-textured breads. Note that Unifine flours require a little more liquid than other flours, because the oil molecule remains intact.

Because our Unifine process does not degrade the grain, our Organic Ultra-Unifine Unbleached Bread Flour has better nutritional value than refined flour. Use this flour for more traditional, professional results in your breads. 

 

Explore our wide assortment of Unifine milled grains and legumes! You’ll find barley, gluten-free brown rice flour, spelt flour, quinoa flour, certified organic, heirloom wheat pastry flour, and more!  No other company produces the variety nor the volume of Unifine flour that Azure does!

 

About Heritage Grains

At Azure we believe it is critically important to bring back heritage grains and we’re proud to be involved. A farmer’s right to save his seed and propagate his own organic crops is a fundamental freedom that has been an indispensable part of farming since time began. 

• Organic
• Non-GMO
• Kosher
• This Unifine flour has had about 12% of the bran and germ removed.

Azure Market products are packaged in a Facility that meets the Safe Quality Food (SQF) standards which includes an approved allergen control program.

Serving Size 1/4 cup (34g)
Calories 130
Total Fat 0.5g 1%
---Saturated Fat 0g 0%
---Trans Fat 0g
Cholesterol 0mg 0%
Sodium 0mg 0%
Total Carbohydrate 28g 9%
---Dietary Fiber 5g 19%
---Total Sugars 0g
------Includes 0g Added Sugars 0%
Protein 5g 10%
Vitamin D 0mcg 0%
Calcium 0mg 0%
Iron 0.64mg 8%
Potassium 0mg 0%
* The % Daily Value (DV) tells you how much a nutrient in
a serving of food contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calories
a day is used for general nutrition advice.

Ingredients

organic hard red spring wheat (CONTAINS WHEAT)

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